My Dad was diagnosed with bladder cancer this morning.
He called me at work. This alone is an indication of how he was feeling. He NEVER calls me at work.
I seem to be having a lot of friends/family getting cancer lately. It's quite scary and painful. I lost a lover to brain cancer. I know intimately what this can look like. I also know that people do survive cancer. This, in the midst of some difficult work on powerlessness. I really don't think I'm so hard headed as to need this kind of object lesson. Is that just too self-centered to think someone else's illness is some kind of lesson(punishment) to me? PRobably. I'll get over myself. And figure out how to be useful to Dad as well. I just needed to put that down.
2 comments:
Marjie I'm so sorry to hear about the diagnosis. Many good thoughts and lots of healing energy is headed in your direction. Thank you for sharing this with me, and with your readers.
Take good care! I wish you could come get a Reiki treatment! Maybe you could go have a really good therapeutic massage? Or maybe you just need time. It's none of my business. Thinking of you!
Thanks Reya, it went better than we could have hoped. They got all the cancer. They had to take part of his bladder to do it but this means he won't need chemo or radiation which is awesome.
Pittsburgh does medicine well. Reiki not so well. There are a few. How does one rate them? Aside from personal experience? Therapeutic massage? That's a thought too. But, I resist using my body as a form of deciding who is a good massage therapist and who is not. I've had a few experiences that I would not wish to repeat. And one that was delightful. Someone from Greensburg. Not close but not that far away. Maybe I should look into that.
Marjie
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